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R. Brent Tully publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where R. Brent Tully sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 320 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

R. Brent Tully D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where R. Brent Tully sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

R. Brent Tully is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily falls under the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by R. Brent Tully include:

  • "Distances to PHANGS galaxies: New tip of the red giant branch measurements and adopted distances," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "The HESTIA project: simulations of the Local Group," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Cosmicflows-4," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Comparing Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Scales: An Independent Reduction of the Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program and the Value of the Hubble Constant," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Analysing the large-scale bulk flow using cosmicflows4: increasing tension with the standard cosmological model," 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

R. Brent Tully has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications together. These include Gagandeep S. Anand, Ehsan Kourkchi, Л. Н. Макарова, John P. Blakeslee, and Joseph B. Jensen.

Best Publications

  • Cosmicflows-3

    R. Brent Tully;Helene M. Courtois;Jenny G. Sorce

  • The Extragalactic Distance Database

    R. Brent Tully;Luca Rizzi;Edward J. Shaya;Hélène M. Courtois;Hélène M. Courtois

  • COSMICFLOWS-2: THE DATA

    R. Brent Tully;Hélène M. Courtois;Hélène M. Courtois;Andrew E. Dolphin;J. Richard Fisher

  • Global Extinction in Spiral Galaxies

    R. Brent Tully;Michael J. Pierce;Jia-Sheng Huang;Will Saunders

  • Our Peculiar Motion Away from the Local Void

    R. Brent Tully;Edward J. Shaya;Igor D. Karachentsev;Hélène M. Courtois

  • THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY

    Laura Ferrarese;Patrick Côté;Jean-Charles Cuillandre;S. D. J. Gwyn

  • Nearby groups of galaxies. II - an all-sky survey within 3000 kilometers per second

    R. Brent Tully

  • Distances to Galaxies from the Correlation between Luminosities and Line Widths. III. Cluster Template and Global Measurement of H 0

    R. Brent Tully;Michael J. Pierce

  • Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances. II. Zero-Point Calibration

    Luca Rizzi;R. Brent Tully;Dmitry Makarov;Dmitry Makarov;Dmitry Makarov;Lidia Makarova;Lidia Makarova;Lidia Makarova

  • The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies

    R. Brent Tully;Hélène Courtois;Yehuda Hoffman;Daniel Pomarède

  • Distances to Galaxies from the Correlation Between Luminosities and Linewidths. III. Cluster Template and Global Measurements of H0

    R. Brent Tully;M.J. Pierce

  • The Extragalactic Distance Database: Color-Magnitude Diagrams

    Bradley A Jacobs;L Rizzi;R B Tully;E J Shaya

  • The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies. I. Cluster Definition and Photometric Data

    R. Brent Tully;Marc A.W. Verheijen;Michael J. Pierce;Jia-Sheng Huang

  • The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies.I.Cluster Definition and Photometric Data

    RB Tully;Marc Verheijen;MJ Pierce;RJ Wainscoat

  • The faint end of the galaxy luminosity function

    Neil Trentham;R. Brent Tully

  • The Hubble flow around the CenA / M83 galaxy complex

    Igor D Karachentsev;R Brent Tully;A Dolphin;M Sharina

  • Luminosity-line width relations and the extragalactic distance scale. I - Absolute calibration

    Michael J. Pierce;R. B. Tully

  • Associations of Dwarf Galaxies

    R B Tully;L Rizzi;A E Dolphin;I D Karachentsev

  • Distances to the Virgo and Ursa Major clusters and a determination of H0

    Michael J. Pierce;R. Brent Tully

  • THE NUCLEAR SUPERBUBBLE OF NGC 3079

    S. Veilleux;G. Cecil;J. Bland-Hawthorn;R. B. Tully

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Gottlöber
Stefan Gottlöber Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
P. J. E. Peebles
P. J. E. Peebles Princeton University
Shoko Sakai
Shoko Sakai University of California, Los Angeles
Gustavo Yepes
Gustavo Yepes Autonomous University of Madrid
Harald Ebeling
Harald Ebeling University of Hawaii at Manoa
Mark Seibert
Mark Seibert Carnegie Institution for Science
Eric Emsellem
Eric Emsellem European Southern Observatory
Matthias Steinmetz
Matthias Steinmetz Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Dale D. Kocevski
Dale D. Kocevski Colby College
Jennifer M. Lotz
Jennifer M. Lotz Space Telescope Science Institute

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